Abia APC Chairman, Ononogbu, betrays interest despite call for unity

The newly inaugurated Abia State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Kingsley Ononogbu, is wasting no time in declaring where his loyalty lies as the party struggles to put its house in order in Abia.

Ononogbu, who received his Certificate of Return alongside other APC state chairmen across the federation, last week in Abuja, was nominated by the Ikechi Emenike-led APC group in Abia.

Speaking Wednesday while inaugurating members of the state and local government party executive officers at the APC state secretariat, Uzuakoli Road, Umuahia, Ononogbu did not leave his audience in doubt when he touted Chief Emenike as a capable hand that will deliver Abia from the over 20 years of PDP misrule.

“This is the time for work. We have to tell people that we have genuine alternative and that all those good things we see in other states are possible in Abia.

“Abia has always been unlucky to be foisted with unprepared governors who are not cut out, ab initio, for the huge responsibility of presiding over the affairs of a state under a democratic setting.

“We can only demonstrate what we are talking about if we are voted into power,” he said, adding that “the APC leader” in the state, Chief Emenike, has the key to unlock Abia.

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Consequently, he charged the party executives to “hit the ground running because of the enormous task ahead and the limited time frame for its accomplishment”.

He bemoaned the state of things in the state saying that Abia is suffering from leadership deficit.

According to him, “Abia ranks low” in infrastructural development when compared to some neighbouring states like Enugu and Ebonyi which have no crude oil.

He boasted that if voted into power, Abia would witness geometric transformation under the watch of APC-led administration.

Ononogbu described stories of crisis and factionalisation in Abia APC as media propaganda by those who failed to participate in the revalidation of party membership exercise last year and sued for unity among party members.

He promised to calm all frayed nerves in the interest of the party, saying, “I’m ready to apologise to any person with genuine grievances.

“I don’t want to lead a party that is divided. I want to lead Abia APC that is a united team to the 2023 general election,” he said. He urged Abia electorate to vote for APC come 2023.